Ame Bora (she/they)

LCSW
Accepting Clients

My name is Ame (Amy) and I provide a non-judgmental, supportive yet gentle and direct approach. I'm an LCSW with 10 years of experience.

Psychotherapist in New York

Services
  • Individual

About My Clients

I specialize in working with bi-poc, Asian Americans, second-generation individuals, working professionals, and creatives. My focus areas include anxiety, depression, mood disorders, life transitions, career, identity, spirituality, intergenerational trauma, and cultural issues.

My Background and Approach

I am trained in gestalt therapy, with a focus on somatic experiencing. Gestalt is a humanistic, integrative and person-centered form of psychotherapy focusing on the present moment and restoring the individual to their whole self. Somatics is the practice of processing sensations that arise in your body from an experience, and making meaning of it. I enjoy working creatively and combining both holistic and practical/evidence-informed schools of therapy to help you. As a second generation South Asian American, I have learned to absorb the training I have received and reframe it to how it would apply for different communities.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

Based on my personal and professional lived experiences as a woman of color, I believe it is essential to come from a place of cross-cultural humility in understanding others in both life and in my practice.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Gestalt Therapy Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Attachment Theory
  • Coaching
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Existential Therapy
  • Experiential Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Holistic Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Career Counseling Spirituality Women's Issues
Other Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Career Counseling
  • Depression
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • Infertility
  • Racial Identity
  • Self-Esteem
  • Spirituality
  • Women's Issues
I offer online counseling in the following states:

At A Glance

  • Experience: 14 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $100 - 150/session

Reach out to Ame